gnome 2.14 issues

eoghan freebsd at redry.net
Tue May 2 20:56:37 UTC 2006


Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> eoghan wrote:
>> Hi
>> First off thanks to all concerned for the 2.14 update. I have it up and
>> running. I would like to ask a few questions; perhaps someone can help
>> me... These have mostly been inherited from my 2.12 build.
>>
>> First off, my problem with Desktop -> Administration persists.
>> That is, when i try to open anything in here it prompts for a root
>> password which it will not accept, message is:
>> "The entered password is invalid, Check that you typed it correctly and
>> that you haven't activated the caps lock key"
>> I am really stuck on this one, was happening to me in 2.12 and I waited
>> for 2.14. I asked before and no one else seems to be having this issue.
>> If anyone can give me any clues I would appreciate it.
> 
> Works for me on 6-STABLE and -CURRENT.  I haven't had any problems with
> these tools since I fixed the pipe problems a few months ago.
> 

Thanks. Any suggestions on how I can resolve this?

>> The new "Login Window" at Desktop -> Administration fails to load with
>> this error:
>> "Could not launch menu item Details: Failed to execute child process
>> 'gmdsetup' (No such file or directory)"
> 
> Try reinstalling GDM.  This works for me.
> 

Done. Same issues.

>> I have also noticed (in 2.12 too) that from the Applications -> System
>> Tools menu, New Login and New Login in a nested window don't load. There
>> is no error message, just nothing happens. Same with Lock Screen from
>> the Desktop menu.
> 
> Make sure you have xorg-nestserver installed.

I have this installed.

Perhaps my original install is somehow tainted... any suggestions/tips 
on doing a complete fresh gnome install without a os reinstall?
Maybe I need a fresh start...
Thanks for the suggestions Joe.
Eoghan

> Joe




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